BILL NUMBER: AJR 31	CHAPTERED  09/20/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   122
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 8, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 8, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 7, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Scott
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alarcon, Alpert, Baca, Bowen, Brulte,
Burton, Costa, Dunn, Figueroa, Hayden, Hughes, Johannessen, Karnette,
Kelley, Knight, Lewis, McPherson, Monteith, Mountjoy, Murray, O'
Connell, Ortiz, Perata, Poochigian, Rainey, Schiff, Sher, Solis,
Speier, Vasconcellos, and Wright)

                        AUGUST 16, 1999

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 31--Relative to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 31, Scott.  NASA:  Budget for fiscal year 2000.
   This measure would commend the actions of the members of the
United States House of Representatives from California to restore
full programming for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) for fiscal year 2000 and would strongly
encourage all members of the United States Congress to actively
support NASA funding for fiscal year 2000 in an amount sufficient to
fully support and sustain scheduled projects.




   WHEREAS, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
has dramatically advanced humankind's knowledge of our universe, the
Earth, and technological progress over the past half-century of space
exploration; and
   WHEREAS, More than 7,250 people are employed at NASA's three
centers in California--the Ames Research Center, the Dryden Flight
Research Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with its
5,200 Caltech employees and a payroll in excess of $300,000,000; and
   WHEREAS, NASA contracts with these centers, including $350,000,000
with JPL alone, supports thousands of additional jobs throughout the
state; and
   WHEREAS, NASA and JPL in particular have pioneered breakthroughs
in deep space communication, charged-coupled devices, global
positioning satellite software, and digital image processing, which
in turn JPL has spun off commercially to the direct benefit of the
state's economic competitiveness in the communication, navigational,
and medical industries; and
   WHEREAS, NASA currently spends one-fourth of its entire annual
budget in California; and
   WHEREAS, California's public and independent universities
successfully competed last year for more than $175,000,000 in NASA
science and engineering grants and contracts; and
   WHEREAS, NASA operates ambitious public education outreach
programs throughout the state from its three centers located in
California; and
   WHEREAS, The President's proposed fiscal year 2000 budget for NASA
of $13.6 billion was cut $1.325 billion by the Subcommittee on VA,
HUD, and Independent Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of
the United States House of Representatives; and
   WHEREAS, NASA funding for the missions to Mars and the Space
Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), both of which are being managed
in the 44th Assembly District, has been restored; and
   WHEREAS, NASA's budget for fiscal year 2000 still faces an
additional $925,000,000 in reductions, which would adversely affect
the sustainability of NASA's robotic exploration of the Earth and our
solar system; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California hereby
commends the actions of members of the United States House of
Representatives from California to restore NASA's full programming
for fiscal year 2000; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California strongly
encourages all members of the United States Congress to actively
support NASA funding for fiscal year 2000 in an amount sufficient to
fully support and sustain scheduled projects; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States, and to the director of NASA.
